Since the earliest civilizations, humans have believed that the Earth itself carries protective power. Stones, formed deep ...

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The history of our cities has been written in water. In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn ...

A “forgotten Alexandria” on the Tigris is being pulled back into focus by archaeologists using drones and geophysics, revealing what appears to have been a vast, carefully planned metropolis in ...

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian ...

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

Alexandria on the Tigris reemerges as archaeologists map a forgotten port city that once powered ancient global trade.

A cringeworthy new study has discovered dark-brown flakes inside a Roman glass medicinal vial, ...

Education has traversed an incredible path, from the storytelling of ancient civilizations to the philosophical debates of Greek scholars. The notion of organized schooling, especially universal ...

Doha: Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Qatar Museums HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad Al Thani affirmed investment in technology ...

In April 1916, George T Coles from Ebbw Vale, South Wales, enlists and trains as a driver in the Royal Field Artillery. He serves with the Small Arms Ammunition Section of the 38th Brigade RFA in ...

Ashutosh Goel, a professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, recently appeared on Adaptiv, a bioscience ...